According to the saga, the men of Rome needed wives to bear children and perpetuate their civilization; when the men of the neighboring Sabine tribe refused to let their daughters marry the Romans, the Romans abducted Sabine women to become their wives.

Seeing the brothers as a bunch of gauche teens and young men changes the feel of the story (a bunch of strapping Oregon rowdies kidnapping half-a-dozen would-be wives) from creepy - they're inspired by the story of the Sabine women for goodness sake - into something akin to clueless and youthful exuberance.

He wanted to make a perfect facsimile of Giambologna's intertwined three-figure marble sculpture The Rape of the Sabine Women (1582) in candle wax (plus wax sculptures of an office chair and an artist friend of his named Rudolf Stingel).

Plutarch, who inspired the libretto for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers with his tale of the rape of the Sabine women, concluded that some soothsayers must be allowed occasionally to get it right, just as some people who shoot often enough must sometimes hit the target.

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